Wasquehal invested less per resident in 2025 than 89% of compared communes
Stéphanie Ducret has been mayor of Wasquehal since March 21, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, WASQUEHAL POUR TOUS won 31 of the 35 seats in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 74.1% of the votes. Wasquehal is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Nord and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Wasquehal’s town hall
Won in the first round
WASQUEHAL POUR TOUS won 74.1% of the votes on March 15, 2026, more than half, so there was no second round; 2 lists stood. It took 31 of the 35 seats: half the seats as the list ahead, and its share of the rest. The other lists share the remaining 4. Who’s in charge ↓
Little investment
Wasquehal invested €171 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 11% of its spending: lower than in 89% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. The commune’s money ↓
Results as the Interior ministry published them; accounts from the DGFiP via OFGL. Nothing here is graded.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- WASQUEHAL POUR TOUS312 community seats
- WASQUEHAL VIVANTE40 community seats
As elected in the first round, March 15, 2026.
The list that comes first gets half the seats; the rest are shared in proportion among the lists with 5% or more, the winner included. So the winning list always has a majority. The same vote gave Wasquehal 2 seats on the council of the Métropole Européenne de Lille (community seats).
Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.
4 authorities share the work
The commune is the tier closest to residents; the intercommunality, the département and the région do the rest.
Births, marriages and deaths, the electoral roll, nursery and primary schools, local roads, planning permission, the municipal police, and what else the council takes on.
Mayor: Stéphanie Ducret · 35 councilors
The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.
Social aid (RSA, care for older and disabled people, child protection), collèges, the département’s roads, and funding for fire and rescue.
Lycées, regional trains (TER) and coaches, economic development and job training.
Who to ask
The usual split of powers (service-public.fr); an intercommunality’s exact remit varies, so check its website for waste, water and buses.
Membership: COG 2026 (INSEE); intercommunality type: BANATIC, January 2025. What each tier does: service-public.fr.
From the mayor to the intercommunality
The officials as the Interior ministry’s register lists them, and the council by list.
- 1Mayorsince March 21, 2026Stéphanie Ducret
- 2Deputy mayors11 adjoints, elected by the councilHugues WatineSylvie MinneOlivier VandevivereLydia VerriestJean-Charles RaptinValérie DesurmontDavid ThiebautCatherine Desbuquoit+3 more
- 3Wasquehal municipal council35 seats by listWASQUEHAL POUR TOUS 31 · WASQUEHAL VIVANTE 4
- 4Métropole Européenne de LilleWasquehal holds 2 seatsCommunity councilors are drawn from the council lists in the same vote.
Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.
The 35 members of the Wasquehal municipal council
The mayor and 11 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Stéphanie Ducret | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Hugues Watine | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Sylvie Minne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Olivier Vandevivere | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Lydia Verriest | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Charles Raptin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Valérie Desurmont | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| David Thiebaut | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Catherine Desbuquoit | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Mathieu Deleignies | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Céline Mendes | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Alexandre Alo | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Stéphanie Ducret | Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Hugues Watine | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Sylvie Minne | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Olivier Vandevivere | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Lydia Verriest | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Jean-Charles Raptin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Valérie Desurmont | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| David Thiebaut | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Catherine Desbuquoit | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Mathieu Deleignies | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Céline Mendes | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Alexandre Alo | 11ème adjoint au Maire | March 21, 2026 |
| Virginie Boudalia | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Laureline Burggraeve | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Joëlle Caron | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Steeve Coquant | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Romaine Coudoro | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Coralie de Colnet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascale Decaestecker | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Magali Druon | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Pascal Duthoit | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Félicie Gerard | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Iva Huang | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christopher Leitao | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Joël Leroy | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Brian Mollestien | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christine Pille | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Mathilde Plet | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Patrick Prieur | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Hugo Renart | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Christophe Taeckens | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Benoit Tirmarche | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Thibault Van Damme | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Julien Vannarien | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
| Bernadette Watine | Conseiller municipal | March 15, 2026 |
Names and offices as the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) published them on August 11, 2026, written as it writes them. Public role only. Later resignations and replacements aren’t shown.
The council: same source as Who represents Wasquehal, above.
How Wasquehal voted in March 2026
2 lists stood; one won more than half the votes in the first round.
8,232 votes cast for a list
8,543 of 15,842 registered voters in Wasquehal voted.
199 blank and 112 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
Turnout, first round · March 15, 2026
Shares are of the votes cast for a list, leaving out blank and spoilt ballots. Lists in vote order; the colors only tell the lists apart.
2026 elections: same source as Who’s in charge, above.
Wasquehal spends €1,608 per resident a year
The commune’s consolidated accounts: main and annexed budgets, transfers between them removed.
Per resident, 2025 · against compared communes
Spending and debt per resident, 2018 to 2025
Wasquehal owed €13.3M at the end of 2025, €638 per resident, lower than in 60% of compared French communes, equal to 44% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,608 | €171 | €638 | €13.3M |
| 2024 | €1,616 | €215 | €645 | €13.6M |
| 2023 | €1,617 | €274 | €624 | €13.2M |
| 2022 | €1,550 | €263 | €702 | €14.8M |
| 2021 | €1,568 | €331 | €693 | €14.4M |
| 2020 | €1,401 | €215 | €695 | €14.4M |
| 2019 | €1,470 | €258 | €811 | €17M |
| 2018 | €1,400 | €218 | €844 | €17.9M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 16th lowest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Mons-en-Barœul, €1. Highest: Sceaux, €2,485.
Have a say in Wasquehal
French citizens register online or at the town hall; citizens of other EU countries can vote in municipal elections too.
service-public.fr ↗See where you’re registered and which polling station is yours.
service-public.fr ↗Council meetings are public; the agenda and minutes are posted at the town hall and usually on its website.
service-public.fr ↗Opening hours, address and phone number of the mairie of Wasquehal in the public services directory.
lannuaire.service-public.fr ↗Who can stand, how lists are formed and the deadlines, from the Interior ministry.
interieur.gouv.fr ↗What this data can and can’t tell you
- Mayors and councilors. From the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) as published on August 11, 2026: name, office and start dates, nothing else. The register counts a mayor as a councilor too; the page counts each person once. It isn’t a live roll: resignations and replacements after that date aren’t shown, and no party is inferred for any official.
- How the council is elected. Since March 2026 every commune elects its council from lists (a 2025 law extended list voting to communes under 1,000). A list with more than half the votes in the first round wins; otherwise lists with 10% or more can go on to a second round, where the list ahead wins. It gets half the seats, and the rest are shared in proportion among lists with 5% or more. The council then elects the mayor and the deputy mayors.
- The label beside a list. The political nuance the prefecture gave the list for the ministry’s results (Divers droite, Union de la gauche…), shown as published. It isn’t the list’s own description; many lists, most in small communes, have none.
- The commune’s money. OFGL’s consolidated accounts from the DGFiP, 2018 to 2025; 2025 is provisional. Spending and investment leave out loan repayments; running costs are part of spending. Debt is what was owed at the end of the year.
- Per resident. Divided by the DGFiP’s population for that year (population totale, which counts some people, such as boarding students, in two communes), so it can differ from the census figure elsewhere on the site.
- The medians. Beside the town’s figure, the median of compared communes in its département and in France (those with an overall grade). A commune’s spending follows its size and its role: one that runs a pool or a theater for the villages around it spends more per resident.
Questions about Wasquehal’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Wasquehal?
Stéphanie Ducret, mayor since March 21, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Wasquehal have?
The Wasquehal municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 11 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Wasquehal?
WASQUEHAL POUR TOUS, in the first round on March 15, 2026, with 74.1% of the votes; it holds 31 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Wasquehal?
53.9% of registered voters voted in the first round on March 15, 2026; the median of compared French communes was 57.4%.
When are the next municipal elections in Wasquehal?
Councils are elected for six years, so the next general municipal elections are due in March 2032. A council can be re-elected sooner if it loses too many members.
How much debt does Wasquehal have?
€13.3M at the end of 2025, €638 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Wasquehal part of?
Wasquehal is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, which runs the services its communes share.
Sources: Interior ministry RNE, August 11, 2026 · Interior ministry, municipal results 2026 · OFGL consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 · INSEE COG 2026 and BANATIC (January 2025) for the intercommunality. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.